Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the dipterous family Lycænidæ.
- Having the characters of or belonging to the family Lycænidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of various butterflies of the family
Lycaenidae .
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- noun A member of the taxonomic family
Lycaenidae .
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- noun any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Etymologies
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Examples
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Weismann found, with regard to the climatic influence, that when the pupae of the German form of a lycaenid butterfly Polymmatus phlaeas was exposed to much higher temperatures, none of the emerged adults resembled the darkest form of southern variety eleus.
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Among the invertebrates, the Mt. Piper region in Victoria is home to a threatened community of ant-attended lycaenid butterflies.
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To the former group belong the phytophthorous Homoptera, the plant lice, scale insects, or mealy bugs, tree-hoppers, lantern flies, and jumping plant lice; to the latter belong the caterpillars of the lycaenid butterflies, the "blues," or
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Genotype-specific response of a lycaenid herbivore to elevated carbon dioxide and phosphorus availability in calcareous grassland.
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